A point to ponder on ...

Similar protections for unique status (like the status of J&K) exist in tribal areas of India including those in Himachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland

However, it is only for the state of Jammu and Kashmir that the accession of the state to India is still a matter of dispute between India and Pakistan still on the agenda of the U N Security Council and where the Government of India vide 1974 Indira-Sheikh accord committed itself to keeping the relationship between the Union and Jammu and Kashmir State within the ambit of this article.